Okay, so how is this different than publicly-available software?
I thought I remember seeing a CD of wuarchive - how is this
different? What about all those Linux/*BSD*/xxx distributions that
include all the free software along with the real product?
I really hope FAQ maintainers don't start knee-jerking like this
and start putting in lots of quid pro quos and "you can't disseminate
this FAQ other than via XXX methods."
>Now either Walnut
>Creek will stop distributing this document, or I'm going to
>have to deal with a new audience for whom the FAQ in its
>present form was not really intended. I think that's
>incredibly rude, and is less in keeping with the "Usenet
>spirit" than encouraging free and unqualified dissemination
>of information.
What?? How is distributing Usenet in alternate formats
not in the spirit of "encouraging free and unqualified dissemination
of information"? Putting qualifications on how you can disseminate
your FAQ IS less in the spirit of Usenet.
Usenet has had a long history of having to deal with new audiences.
It started as basically a UNIX network made up of 18-35 year old
computer jocks. Now we've got 5 year old kids and 85 year old
grandmothers on the net. You can't stop change.
>> In theory, a CD
>> of FAQ's is just a news server with an infinite expire time,
>
>Not really. That's just the problem: it's a news server
>with infinite expire time which has been irrevocably been
>taken off the net.
Or at least until the next CD is cut.. CD's are a living, breathing
thing, too, they just take longer and bigger breaths.
--Dave
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